New User Fees Set for Foreign Medical Device Manufacturers in China

Content provided by Emergo, a medical device regulatory affairs and quality assurance consulting firm with offices worldwide.

Chinese medical device market regulator China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has published a draft table of user fees for medical device registrants, and is expected to begin enforcing fee requirements in March 2015.

CFDA registration fees will not be insubstantial: Imported Class II device registrants will be charged about $34,000 for initial registration, while foreign Class III device registrants will have to pay about $49,000 for initial registration. Registration renewals every five years for imported devices will cost registrants $6,500 per renewal. User fees will be charged in addition to in-country testing, clinical trials, authorized representation and translation costs.

A translation of the draft fee table below does not include any potential fees for Class I CFDA record filing or CFDA quality system audits.

CFDA Medical User Fees
		Unit: Chinese Yuan (RMB)		Unit: US Dollars (USD)
		Domestic	Imported	Domestic	Imported
Class II	Initial Registration	-	210,900	-	33,761
	Variation Application	-	42,000	-	6,723
	Renewal every 5 years)	-	40,800	-	6,531
Class III	High Risk MD Clinical Trial Approval	43,200	43,200	6,915	6,915
	Initial Registration	153,600	308,800	24,588	49,433
	Variation Application	50,400	50,400	8,068	8,068
	Renewal (every 5 years)	40,800	40,800	6,531	6,531

USD figures are calculated based on 1/30/2015 exchange rate of 1 RMB = 0.16008 USD

Emergo consultants and partners in China will continue monitoring the Medical User Fee issue and its impact on foreign firms with devices registered for sale in the country.

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